Speaker Biographies

Trade in Services:
Is More Liberalization Possible in the Doha Round?

August 18, 2003

Claude E. Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of trade and science policy studies and technology policy studies at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including the recently published Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization. In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization with Mark Groombridge. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Ford administration, on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and as a costaff director of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

Stephen J. Canner

is the vice president for investment policy and financial services at the U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB). In this capacity he advocates on behalf of U.S. Council members on the numerous investment and investment related issues. Before launching his second career at USCIB, he served for twenty-eight years at the U.S. Treasury where he was the director of the Office of International Investment from 1987 to 1992. In 1991 he was the recipient of the President’s Meritorious Executive Award in the Senior Executive Service of the United States Government.

Ashraf M. Hayat

has been a career civil servant with the government of Pakistan since 1973. He is currently the minister of trade. From 1998 to 2002, he was joint secretary for the Ministry of Communications in charge of transport policy, multi-modal transportation, and the development of federal highways and development of ports. He has also served as joint secretary for the economic affairs division and as minister and counselor (commercial) for the Embassy of Pakistan in Tokyo.

Flavio Marega

is the first secretary of trade policy at the Embassy of Brazil. Before this position, Mr. Marega worked as the chief of trade promotion at the Embassy of Brazil in Saudi Arabia; as trade negotiator in services at the permanent mission of Brazil at the World Trade Organization in Geneva; as trade negotiator and deputy chief of the Mercosur division; and as the deputy chief of the division on trade in services and financial issues in Brazil.

James Mendenhall

is the assistant U.S. trade representative for services, investment, and intellectual property. Mr. Mendenhall was previously deputy general counsel. Before joining the USTR in September 2001, he was a partner in the Atlanta-based law firm of Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy, where he focused on World Trade Organization litigation, international arbitration, and trade policy.

J. Robert Vastine

has served as president of the Coalition of Service Industries since his appointment to that position in January 1996. Before joining CSI, Mr. Vastine served as president of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute. Mr. Vastine has served as staff director of the Senate Republican Conference and as minority staff director of the Senate Committee on Government Affairs. He also served as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for international trade and raw materials policy under President Gerald R. Ford and as vice president of the oversight board of the Resolution Trust Corporation. He is chairman of the official Industry Sector Advisory Committee for International Trade in Services. He was a fellow of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is coauthor of The Kennedy Round and the Future of American Trade, as well as many articles on U.S. trade policy.

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